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FILE - In this Nov. 19. 2014 file photo Yvette Felarca, an alumni of the University of California Berkeley and member of the group By Any Means Necessary, claps and yells as a vote is taken to raise tuition during a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents in San Francisco. The Sacramento County District Attorney's office said Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that Felarca was arrested Tuesday on charges of assault and inciting and participating in a riot stemming from a brawl during a protest at the state Capitol last year. Yvette Felarca is the name used by a leader of the group By Any Means Necessary, but public records show her given name is Yvonne Capistrano Felarca. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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John Gose, walks into court at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The former high school chemistry teacher convicted of cooking methamphetamines in New Mexico like the fictional Walter White character in the AMC-TV show "Breaking Bad" could see prison. (Josh Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)
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John Gose listens during his sentencing hearing at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The former high school chemistry teacher convicted of cooking methamphetamines in New Mexico like the fictional Walter White character in the AMC-TV show "Breaking Bad" could see prison. (Josh Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)
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John Gose is escorted out of court at the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The former high school chemistry teacher convicted of cooking methamphetamines in New Mexico like the fictional Walter White character in the AMC-TV show "Breaking Bad" could see prison. (Josh Bachman/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito, the dean of the University of Southern California medical school, arrives at the Changing Lives And Creating Cures Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. USC President C.L. Max Nikias says officials will "examine and address" a newspaper report that the Puliafito, who recently resigned as dean of the medical school, abused drugs and associated with criminals. (Photo by Tonya Wise/Invision/AP, File)
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Students from Team Israel dance in the hallway next to other teams including students from Iraq during the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Washington. The challenge is an international robotics event with teams from over 100 countries. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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FILE - In this May 15, 2012 file photo, Ritter Elementary School elementary students practice their math skills in Los Angeles. A recent federal court ruling ordering the release of personal data on more than 10 million California students highlights the growing amount of information schools now collect, and the loopholes that allow it to be released. The order involves a lawsuit filed in 2011 in which plaintiffs are requesting data kept by the California Department of Education to determine whether the state is fulfilling its federal obligations for disabled students. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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The Robot Olympics, held inside DAR's Constitution Hall, drew tech-minded high school students from almost 160 nations to the competition. Despite language barriers, rival teams interacted with and supported each other. (Photographs by Emma Ayers/The Washington Times)
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Professor Eric Canin is pictured in Long Beach, Calif., outside a meeting of the California State University Fullerton board of trustees on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Canin has been reinstated at the school after he faced being fired over a run-in with pro-Donald Trump student demonstrators in Feb. 2017. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Meyers)
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In a Sunday, July 16, 2017 photo, Park Ranger Lesley Gaunt, lead interpreter, discusses how emigrants traveled west to students from Afghanistan via the internet. Park Superintendent Dan Morford, lead interpreter Lesley Gaunt and Chief Ranger Justin Cawiezel were at the Scotts Bluff National Monument on Sunday to give more than 60 Afghan students a virtual tour through an iPad. (Irene North/The Star-Herald via AP)
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In a Sunday, July 16, 2017 photo, Justin Cawiezel, chief ranger at the Scotts Bluff National Monument, listens to questions from students in Afghanistan while Park Ranger Lesley Gaunt, lead interpreter, makes sure students and Cawiezel can see and hear each other. Park Superintendent Dan Morford, lead interpreter Lesley Gaunt and Chief Ranger Justin Cawiezel were at the Scotts Bluff National Monument on Sunday to give more than 60 Afghan students a virtual tour through an iPad. (Irene North/The Star-Herald via AP)
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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS - Baltimore Ravens lineman and math scholar John Urschel, left, hands out ice cream to Chelsy Valerio, 14, of Baltimore, during a STEM lesson at Dundalk High School during the launch of Texas Instruments' STEM Behind Cool Careers series on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 in Baltimore. The fun, free activities show students how a solid understanding of STEM subjects is vital for any career, even careers students least expect. (Steve Ruark/AP Images for Texas Instruments)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2011, file photo, Carlos Galindo protests outside the Arizona Department of Education in Phoenix, along with other supporters of an ethnic studies program in the Tucson Unified School District. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Matt York, file)
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FILE - In this Jan 3, 2011, file photo, outgoing Arizona schools chief Tom Horne announces in Phoenix, Ariz., that a major school district in Tucson is violating a new state law by continuing an ethnic studies program designed primarily for Hispanics. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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FILE - In this Jan 3, 2011, file photo, outgoing Arizona schools chief Tom Horne announces in Phoenix, Ariz., that a major school district in Tucson is violating a new state law by continuing an ethnic studies program designed primarily for Hispanics. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo, protesters gather to support the Tucson Unified School District as Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal announces that the Tucson Unified School District violates state law by teaching it's Mexican American Studies Department's ethic studies program at a news conference at the Arizona Department of Education in Phoenix, Ariz. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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This photo shows the classroom in the Sunnyside School, a rural school depicting school life from the late 19th century. The deteriorating log cabin at the “Little House on the Prairie” site in Kansas is expected to soon get a makeover. The current cabin was re-created and built near Independence in 1977 at the television series’ peak of popularity. The show is based off Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books centered on her childhood in the country’s Midwest region.. (Beccy Tanner/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
